Quotes with strangling

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• A neck God made for other use Than strangling in a string.

  A. E. Housman
  British poet (1859 - 1936)
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• Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.

  William Zinsser
  American writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher (1922 - 2005)
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• The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.

  Raymond Chandler
  American writer (1888 - 1959)
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• The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

  David Herbert Lawrence
  English writer (1885 - 1930)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• constructions
• meaningless
• limitations
• distinction
• mechanical
• slickness

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